From: Patsloane-AT-aol.com Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:16:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: PLC: RE: Art & Truth > The Platonist is doomed always to a theory of art as imitation, in which it > must needs be inferior to the "creation" it imitates (human nature, the > eternal verities, whatever). George, <Both> Plato and Aristotle assume that art imitates nature, though of course it need not. I forget if it was the Poetics or the Metaphysics where Aristotle says that human beings delight in works of imitation. Dante has a nice put-down of Plato in either Inf. 11 or 18 (forgot which). He has Virgil define art as the grandchild of creation. The implication--are you going to say a grandchild is inferior because an "imitation of an imitation" (of his grandparent)? Question is rhetorical. Answer is no. So much for Plato's ideas about art. Case closed. pat sloane: --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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